Cannot activate Office 2003 trial version

I installed Office 2003 trial version on my Virtual PC at home. I am a new
IT student and the Virtual PC is not configured for internet access so I
wanted to phone in the activation. When the activation window pops up, the
phone option is "grayed out" and not available. My only options are to
connect to the internet and activate, or upgrade to the regular version. In
retrospect, we practiced an installation using the Office CD on our computers
in class so the product key was used once a few days ago but we never
activated the copy at that time. I have a dial-up connection so you can
probably understand why I didn't want to configure the internet access on the
Virtual PC.

Any suggestions on how I can do a phone activation when the option is not
available in the activation window?

The trial version can only be activated online. I don't know whether
the online activation system will let you activate the Office 2003 trial
version now that Office 2007 has been out for almost a year.

sbohl184 wrote:

> I installed Office 2003 trial version on my Virtual PC at home. I am a new
> IT student and the Virtual PC is not configured for internet access so I
> wanted to phone in the activation. When the activation window pops up, the
> phone option is "grayed out" and not available. My only options are to
> connect to the internet and activate, or upgrade to the regular version. In
> retrospect, we practiced an installation using the Office CD on our computers
> in class so the product key was used once a few days ago but we never
> activated the copy at that time. I have a dial-up connection so you can
> probably understand why I didn't want to configure the internet access on the
> Virtual PC.
>
> Any suggestions on how I can do a phone activation when the option is not
> available in the activation window?

Uh oh. The CD is the one in the back of the 70-272 Microsoft Official
Academic Course textbook our class is using. I need it to practice my lab
exercises. Well, I guess I am going to have to get Road Runner after all.
Been trying to pinch my pennies being a poor student, you know?

Thanks for the info.
--
susan184



"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

> The trial version can only be activated online. I don't know whether
> the online activation system will let you activate the Office 2003 trial
> version now that Office 2007 has been out for almost a year.
>
> sbohl184 wrote:
>
> > I installed Office 2003 trial version on my Virtual PC at home. I am a new
> > IT student and the Virtual PC is not configured for internet access so I
> > wanted to phone in the activation. When the activation window pops up, the
> > phone option is "grayed out" and not available. My only options are to
> > connect to the internet and activate, or upgrade to the regular version. In
> > retrospect, we practiced an installation using the Office CD on our computers
> > in class so the product key was used once a few days ago but we never
> > activated the copy at that time. I have a dial-up connection so you can
> > probably understand why I didn't want to configure the internet access on the
> > Virtual PC.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how I can do a phone activation when the option is not
> > available in the activation window?
>
>